'...soon you'll find that if you try to save her, it renews her anger, you will never win...'
Revenge: Sadly, unlike the lead in TSC, I am not impressed by this show’s main chick. She’s too…bland, softly-spoken, unconvincing…I don’t get any sense of contained menace from her. I feel no underlying threat in her words, no leashed tigress quality in her movement, just…nothing to indicate she isn’t really an ordinary teen girl. Which,
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I'm...not the smartest viewer around. I do tend to miss things, so it's good when other people can clear it up for me. 'coz...I thought he wasn't in jail for at least a while? I mean, if he invested in...billionaire kid, what's his name, Nolan, a guy in jail couldn't be doing business, could he? I got the impression he'd have to be out and free to do that. But I don't have a great grasp on jail protocol, so maybe he was internet banking from prison. But how could he invest in Nolan's scheme, wouldn't his funds be frozen? *clutches head*
I do buy your point if he had been in jail and only sent her letters before, ofc she wouldn't read them. I found it refreshing, really, that she thought he was guilty. So many times you have people blindly believing in the innocence of their loved ones, especially as she was a child who clearly adored her father, and I thought it was neat she was so bitter and set against him. It makes sense why she goes over the edge and cooks up the revenge scheme- all those years she would've hated him, thought the worst of him, and he was innocent all along...that would sting.
(though if she was that hostile to him, I wonder that the letter managed to convince her. I might have to rewatch that scene and work out why it succeeds in making her believe in him again, can't remember)
in the original version it came across that her dad was very guilty but was using the "you should forgive" stuff as emotional manipulation. It was just the kind of statement to make her believe his innocence and set her off
See, that? That would be awesome. It was certainly a theory I entertained, that it was blatant devious manipulation, reverse psychology, designed to get her to seek vengeance for him. Nice.
Anyway, I do have strong positive feelings for this show. Unimpressed by the lead, but it's generally quite good and I'm excited for more. ^_^
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I've heard people wondering how this show could last more than one season. I mean, there's only so many people in the Hamptons, right? Maybe they could have some reveals like her dad wasn't so nice after all. Or maybe some of the people she destroyed will try and come back and get her. There's possibilities.
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I still kinda think a guy arrested for terrorism- and if he died in jail- wouldn't be allowed to keep his money, but I suppose once he died, it could still pass to his daughter. I'm not that good with business- I suppose it could just be shares in the company, like, not actual money, but assets, so they might not be allowed to strip that from him? IDK.
Ha, I'd wondered that as well! If Emily scratches one person off her list already, and there were only, what, three or four people involved, then it's not going to have a long shelf life, is it?
Maybe taking down the others takes longer- I mean, the show shows four months in the future, and Victoria's still standing, untouched, but she does seem to see through Emily's facade (at least, she's faking a speech praising her and then hissing at her in a hostile manner later, so I assumed she knew Emily was up to no good, but maybe I misinterpreted that). I guess the rest of the season could be cat-and-mouse games between the two ladies?
When this show started, it reminded me of another show with a young pretty blonde with no family winding up in a town where she's adopted by the locals- Point Pleasant. That got canceled after one season, but the writers' so-called plan for a second season was really awful and not well-thought out. Might be the same here.
I do hope they got something better in the bag for a second season, though.
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